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Then, thank God, came the coup de gr ce. Another mailed arm, another downward slash to the head, so hard that the sword blade broke in two on the stones. To finish the job, a third warrior stood on the Archbishop' s neck, stuck the end of his sword into the open cavity of his skull, scooped out the brains and spread them on the floor. " Let' s be off," he said. " This fellow won' t be getting up again." It was around 4: 30 in the afternoon. The door was open, frightened people who' d come for the service gathered round the body. But it was by no means a flock who thought Becket was a saint. " He wanted to be a King." Said one. " Now let him be one." But then it all changed. Becket' s chamberlain reattached the bleeding scalp to his head with a strip of material torn from his own shirt and the monks began to prepare Becket' s body for burial. And then they discovered what no one, until that moment had known, the hair shirts, with a lice crawling busily in it. Thomas the immovable had been Thomas the selfmortifier, Thomas the humble. |
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jiē zhe, xiè tiān xiè dì, bào tú gěi le zhì mìng yī jī. lìng yī tiáo guǒ zhe suǒ zǐ jiǎ de shǒu bì, cháo zhe tóu lú kǎn xià qù, shì nà me yòng lì, zhì yú dāo fēng xiàng kǎn shàng le shí tou ér duàn chéng liǎng jié. wèi le wán chéng rèn wù, dì sān ge qí shì cǎi zài dà zhǔ jiào de bó zi shàng, jiāng zhěng bǎ jiàn chā rù duì fāng de lú qiāng, yǎo chū tā de nǎo jiāng, sǎ zài dì shàng." zǒu ba", tā shuō," zhè jiā huo zài yě zhàn bù qǐ lái le". dào le xià wǔ sì diǎn bàn zuǒ yòu, dà mén chǎng kāi zhe, qián lái zuò lǐ bài de rén men dōu xià huài le. tā men jù jí zài shī tǐ páng, dāng shí jué bú huì yǒu rén bǎ bèi kè tè kàn zuò shèng tú. yǒu rén hái shuō," tā xiǎng dāng guó wáng xiàn zài tā rú yuàn le". dàn hòu lái qíng kuàng dōu biàn le, bèi kè tè de nèi shì cóng zì jǐ yī fú shàng chě xià yí kuài bù tiáo, bǎ réng zài liú xiě de tóu pí chóng xīn lián huí bèi kè tè de tóu shàng. xiū dào shì men kāi shǐ zhǔn bèi bèi kè tè de zàng lǐ, hòu lái tā men yǒu le yī xiàng qián suǒ wèi yǒu de fā xiàn, nà jiù shì bèi kè tè pá mǎn shī zi de gāng máo chèn yī, kǔ xíng zhě huò chàn huǐ zhě tiē shēn chuān de yī fú, qí shàng fèng yǒu gāng máo huò yìng zhì dòng wù máo fà. bù kě dòng yáo de tuō mǎ sī yuán lái yī zhí zì wǒ jié zhì shì qiān xùn de tuō mǎ sī. |